Lawfully His Book 1.

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

THE ISLAND

Melissa Fernando

I will break you beyond repair...........

That sentence kept replaying in my mind.

Everywhere I go, the echoing voice is there saying the same thing over and over again. I can't succeed in getting that out of my mind no matter how much I try to.

Aries-

his expression, the fire in his eyes when he told me that.

It's unforgettable, the hate, determination and vengeance was there in his eyes whenever he looked at me.

Why me?

He is very determined on torture me, breaking me. But for what exactly?!

'Revenge', he said that he would avenge his mother by giving me pain.

But why me? I did nothing to his mother. Then why target me?

I had never taken part in any of my mother's plans.

It was my mother, always has been. My mother is the guilty party, I was always a bystander. I had no idea what was going on, absolutely clueless. Then why is he hell-bent on making my life a living hell?

He has no right to behave like that to me.

Absolutely no... not a single right!

Still, I decided to go along with it. I have witnessed his anger and I don't want to see it again. He is very scared when he is angry and I don't know to what extent he can go in anger.

So, I became positive about obeying him. I'm on an island full of strangers, I'm not the one with power here.

I'll behave the way he wants me to, I'll obey his every command. I'll treat him the same way I treat everyone even if he is mean to me. I'll conduct myself towards him with kindness and gentleness.

I'll show him how much I love and care for him. Maybe, then he will understand that I'm not evil like my mother. He will be able to love me in return.

That sucks!

It's the only way.

Now here I am, in the kitchen, preparing dinner for that monster and his staff members, the bodyguards.

Yeah, he ordered me to cook food for his guards too. I watched as the lady in the video mixes the beef with the eggs and proceeded to do the same. Outwardly, I have been watching these videos on YouTube.

I don't know how to cook. I love cooking and I have always wished to be good at it but that's somehow impossible. On the other hand, I'm very good at baking.

It's rather a favourite hobby of mine aside from photography and kung-fu.

I'm able to cook some simple stir fry and so on. I depended on those simple menus when I started to live in my apartment.

Back in my teen days, I would always bake cupcakes for Demy. She preferred my cupcakes over a birthday cake on her birthdays.

Tiramisu was my favourite while hers were my red velvet cupcakes and lemon cheesecake.

Once, we were both called into the rector's office for pulling pranks on our math' teacher. We were in grade ten at that time.

Apparently, Mr McDreamy was a very mean teacher. Even the other teachers didn't like him. He was so full of himself, Demy was never good in mathematics and neither I for that matter.

It was on Demy’s birthday, he asked her to complete the equation on the board and as usual, Demy did it wrong but the worst part was that he made fun of her in front of the class resulting in everybody laughing at her.

What kind of teacher does that?!

She felt very humiliated that day and she was on the verge of crying.

Thus, I decided to take revenge on the teacher for making my best friend sad, and we both planned our mission.

Mr McDreamy always came to school on his bicycle because he lived not so far from the school. I know it's funny to witness a teacher coming to school on a bicycle, but that was Mr McDreamy's transport for school.

So I decided to burst a hole in the wheel of his bicycle so that he could fall down when travelling on it and then he won't come to school because he would be injured which would be a great humiliation.

That was the perfect plan. But of course, it wasn't. We were immature at that time and thought that it was a cool plan.

We executed our plan excitedly, but there is always a villain in a story and ours was the caretaker. He saw us ruining the wheel and went directly to the headmaster to complain.

As a consequence, the headmaster called both our parents to school and gave us restrictions.

On that day, my mother was extremely furious, she grounded me for a week and hit me with a whip.

She was in an important meeting when the principal called her which was why she was so angry. That was the last day I disobeyed her in my teen days.

I didn't want to get beaten with a whip again, it was too painful. It left marks on my back for months.

Demy was very downhearted about the fact that it all happened because of her. That was the day I decided to cheer her up by baking delicious red velvet cupcakes for her and it worked. Having become that day, we became even closer. I became her favourite person and she became mine.

Thinking about the memory made a broad smile stretch its way onto my face. Those were happy days that won't come back. Time has changed, people have changed, and the world has changed.

Nothing is the same, not anymore.

The smell of burning brought me back to reality. I snapped out of my daze panicked, looking around the kitchen on alert.

My gaze fell on the oven where flames were coming out and I jumped.

Shit, s**t, s**t!

Fool! Melissa, you are really a fool I look in horror at the burnt meatloaf that resemble a rock and gasped.

Oh no, no, no...........

Aries is going to kill me today, he will surely delete me from this world now.

Oh God, what do I do?!

I wasted the meat, eggs, seasonings and all.

Shit!

Knowing that I don't have another choice, I opened the refrigerator to take another layer of beef and the other ingredients only to find out that there was neither meat nor breadcrumbs.

Double s**t!

Can this day get any worse?!

Making my way upstairs, I reached out for my purse and then went outside the mansion.

Mr. Robert Maverick greeted me on my way out. "Sorry for asking ma'am but I need to know where you are going, Mrs. Alexopoulos. It's the boss's order to prevent you from going anywhere without a guard."

From What?

What the hell!

"It's okay Mr. Maverick, I'm just going grocery shopping and I have already notified Mr. Alexopoulos, don't bother to ask him. He is taking a bath right now." After thinking for a while, he agreed to give me a small smile which I returned kindly.

Thank God, he took the bait!

Okay, no need to take a car, I don't even know where the shops are located Hurrying out of the yard, the guards closed the gate once again behind me.

Phew...

I was successful enough to get out of the den without waking up the lion.

Hurray Melissa!!!

Now it's time to buy the groceries. The street was tranquil, it was not a creepy silence. It's rather a peaceful one. There were trees and identical houses on both sides of the street making the atmosphere very comfortable. So unlikely to New York.

I continued walking, humming softly until I heard a noise, a strange kind of noise, more like someone moaning.

I stopped dead in my tracks ever so slowly, I turned my head in the direction from where the sound was coming.

I let out a surprised yelp as soon as my gaze fell on them.

My jaw fell open at the sight, I placed my palm on my chest and monitored my breath.

Holy fishes!

Dear God, it's confirmed, you really want to give me a heart attack.

The two naked people turned their gaze at me when they heard my cries.

Okay, not fully naked but half naked.

The lady had her red underwear and skirt down, her blouse ripped apart, her hair dishevelled and her lips swollen while the man had his shirt hanging halfway on his shoulders, his jeans and boxer were past his ankle Not to forget, his finely sculptured ass was on display causing me to look away immediately.

And dare I say, it was a very sexy ass Shame on you, Melissa, you are a married woman and you are looking at another man's sexy ass.

Hey, I wasn't gazing okay, I just noticed the fair ass.

I should definitely wash my eyes with holy water.

But the most interesting part was the two people, specifically the man.

To be clearer, the half-naked man who is shamelessly screwing a lady on a motorcycle on the street without a care in the world is none other than Sam Drakos.

Yes, the same crazy of an i***t, Sam Drakos, who calls me 'little merchandise'. Shock enveloped his handsome features as he stared at me. Then, in a split second, he raised his jeans to his hips and buttoned up his shirt.

A taint of blush appeared on his cheeks and neck that didn't go unnoticed by me.

As for the woman, she stood there flabbergasted until Sam nudged her, giving her the pale pink blazer which was hanging on the motorcycle.

Sam walked towards me with a lazy grin on his face but the pink taints were still there on his cheeks.

"Little merchandise, what the hell are you doing?" He asked me.

"Oh, I was enjoying a show which was on display here on the street," I replied with a teasing yet accusing tone.

He patted the back of his neck nervously before answering "Oh yeah, well I'm glad that you enjoyed the show merchandise." And now it was my turn to blush.

I smack his arm playfully "Baby, what's going on? Who is she?"

Oops, I have completely forgotten about the lady. She looks older than me, maybe in her late twenties.

"Oh err little merchandise, Bailey and Bailey, meet my little merchandise." Sam made some dramatic gestures with his hands towards me.

The girl furrowed her eyebrows, and she stomped her foot in irritation while murmuring, "It's Hailey, not Bailey, for goodness sake".

What's with those girls stomping their feet?

Sam rolled his eyes before saying, "Yeah yeah, Bailey. No, I mean Hailey. Yes Hailey. There are way too many Hailey’s here."

I clamped my palm on my mouth to stop myself from gigging.

This man was a real playboy. A womanizer

"What do you mean by t~"

"Oh nothing babe, I wrote my number on your father's bike. Call me when you're free." Sam said to the girl, she immediately gave him a kiss before going away while purring like a damn cat.

"Seriously Sam, you wrote your phone number. On top of that, on her father's bike." I chided, shaking my head in the process.

He gave me a cheeky grin. Okay, the devious look was back. What is he up to this time?

"Oh, no little merchandise. Apparently, I gave your dear husband and my dear friend's number. Now she is going to call him like a crazy cow and Aries will be deadly angry I tell you. Don't start blaming me now, I love playing pranks on my best friend." The revelation made me speak.

That cretin! Oh Lord, Aries is going to be very annoyingly furious and he will release all that anger on me.

Damn, you Sam Drakos! Forcus... Forcus... Concentrate on your task, Melissa!

Oh s**t, groceries.

Yes, grocery shopping.

"Look, Sam, I need to buy groceries and I don't know anything about this place. Will you help?" I asked him, staring at him hopefully.

"Yeah sure little merchandise. Come, I'll introduce you to your husband's private island. We are going to have so much fun." He sends me a wink before grabbing my hand. "And you should stop playing with the hearts of these young girls okay."

"Hey, I always go on, no strings attached." We have been strolling around for the past hour.

It amazes me how developed the island is. It isn't like an abandoned island with trees everywhere.

It's more like a small village. This particular street is called Chongolia Street.

It is where the Market Place is situated. It's very lively, with shops on both sides.

Crafts shops, goodies shops, vegetable markets, jewellery shops, candy shops, snacks, restaurants and many more.

The people are very friendly too, not like in the city. In Manhattan, I don't even know the name of my neighbour but here it's so different.

There are even sugarcane plantations. The people sell ripe sugarcane, pets and plants on the street.

I was currently munching my sugarcane stick, I have never eaten one in my life and I'm enjoying it so much.

It's very juicy "How does this work, I mean the island is for him but so many people reside here".

"Well, everything is based on the collection. The people here work for Aries, they are very loyal to him, not like in the city. They work in several departments of the island. Some on the sugarcane fields and many more. He has several industries built here and people work in those. They help to keep the island safe and alive. And in return Aries let them live for free." To say I was shocked would be an understatement.

I never expected that.

He has made a pledge with them.

Smart!!

We were already done with the grocery shopping. I bought potatoes, a crate of eggs, breadcrumbs and a sachet of fresh meat for the meatloaf.

Earlier, we went to the crafts shop and Sam bought us a custom friendship bracelet. I selected a brown for me and black one for him.

We both hugged each other before tying our bracelets.

He promised to be by my side whenever I needed him. He is so sweet. Why can't Aries be like him? As for now, we decided to the famous ice cream parlour which had people lined up at the cashier.

The people asked about me as they have never seen me here but I forbade Sam to tell them that I was Mrs. Alexopoulos. I didn't want unnecessary attention.

Upon seeing Sam, the people step aside giving him the way to collect our ice cream. Perks of being the best friend of the island's proprietor.

Soon, we were both enjoying our ice cream while cracking jokes.

"~And there was this time when he had hidden my towel so that I would have to walk naked in front of the staff and students. It was during our summer trip," He paused to control his laugh, I chuckled hearing the incident.

He was narrating to me the irrelevant things he and Aries did in their youthful days.

"Then, to take revenge, I placed a black kitten on his bed which resulted in him crying like a baby, not really crying, but he was damn scared. But times had changed. If I ever see Aries Alexopoulos crying again, then I bet it would only be the end of the world. He was very different back then. I feel like he is someone else these days. Like he isn't my best friend." He said softly, looking into his eyes space with filled with emotions.

"But why would someone cry because of a kitten even if it's black?"

He shot me a surprised look, "Oh, you don't know?! The great Aries Alexopoulos is an Ailurophobe- the irrational fear of cats He despises the sight of cats." I laughed harder this time.

This is interesting, but that will be a problem because I just adore cats, especially those with big blue eyes.

I was startled by the ringing tone of my mobile phone. I picked up the phone, still giggling.

- Hello?

- Get back to the mansion right NOW!!

I cut off the call immediately after hearing his voice.

0-M-G!!!

Shit, I'm in deep trouble!